Chapter 30: Knowledge
"Ahh The lord's house is so beautiful, well, the food is also delicious, ha, and the fruit. Luo Lei patted her stomach with satisfaction, which could no longer eat anything, and said happily, after a busy morning, it was finally time for the waiters to rest.
Roast pork leg smeared with honey* sauce, a large plate of special barbecued pork, most of the roast goose left, and a large pot full of carrot and mutton soup, and enough black bread, although it is only a part of the adults to eat the leftovers, but for Luo Lei, it is already an extremely rich feast.
However, when Luo Lei saw the fresh fruits such as peaches, citrus, apples, plums, cherries, etc., she immediately regretted that she had eaten too quickly and too full. You know, at this time, there are not so many fresh fruits, these are all precious fruits that can only be produced in the druids' greenhouses and the mage's arcane gardens, and civilians like them have no chance to eat at this time.
"Hi Lore, have you eaten well? We should be busy, the lord is receiving the Interior Minister, and the milk tea and coffee of the adults are about to be served. ”
A maid greeted Luo Lei gently, in her opinion, Luo Lei is still a little girl who doesn't know anything, and before she understands the meaning of her new identity, it is always a good thing to get along with her more and build a good relationship.
"Ah, Sister Jenny, I'm coming!" Luo Lei hurriedly stood up, and at the same time ran to the pool in a panic, washed her hands seriously, and then ran back and said, "Sister Jenny, I didn't lose time!" ”
"Of course not, but we need to hurry...... Well, by the way, the lord doesn't like milk tea, she prefers the tea leaves that the elves come out of, and brew tea in the same way that came from the New World...... When you hold milk tea, don't make a mistake! With a faint smile on her face, Jenny carefully and thoughtfully explained the details of various things to Luo Lei.
"Eun, I see, thank you, Sister Jenny!" Luo Lei nodded vigorously again and again, she is a diligent child and a smart child, as long as others tell her once, she can complete it well, she used to be praised so often.
Luo Lei took the milk tea, walked to the front of the living room, and gently pushed the door open.
The morning light is soft, pouring into the room through the open windows, adding bright colors to the spacious living room.
There was silence in the living room, the lord was sitting in front of a small table, reading a document in front of him, and on the sofa in front of the table, the lord of the territory and several other big people in the territory that Luo Lei had seen were sitting respectfully.
Luo Lei walked in quietly, the soft and delicate plush carpet absorbing the sound of her footsteps, not breaking the silent atmosphere of the living room.
"My lord, your milk tea!" Luo Lei reminded softly, and then put the silver tea set on the tray in front of several adults in turn.
Several adults didn't speak, just nodded slightly, which was a response to Luo Lei, and then nervously waited for the lord's inquiry.
Luo Lei finished her job and quietly withdrew. And Dugufeng also finished reading all the documents and raised his head slightly.
Dugu Feng picked up the teacup, took a sip gently, then looked at several officials in the territory, and said, "Okay, I have read your report, and you have done a good job!" ”
Hearing Dugu Feng's evaluation, the territorial officials who had always been a little nervous and uneasy suddenly breathed a long sigh of relief, I don't know why, they were facing this killing princess, there was always this kind of inexplicable pressure, which made them nervous involuntarily. Their lords are even more majestic and imposing than the Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate.
"Anyway, besides these, what else do I need to deal with in the territory?" Dugu Feng asked lightly.
"My lord, according to your orders, we have cooperated with the Gongde Church and have established several workshops in the territory, and the results of the foundation trial camp are very good! The production of the assembly line has greatly improved our efficiency, and after the modular decomposition, many complex processes have been able to be completed by automatic machine tools. It's just that the cost of activating enchantments is too high, and you need a mage to perform activation spells regularly......"
The internal affairs officer in charge of the internal affairs of the territory first came up to report and told Dugufeng about the recent cooperation with the Gond Church in the territory.
Gongde, the god of craftsmanship and forging, is the master of all crafts, forging, inventions, and projects in the world of Faerun. Most of his followers were craftsmen, architects, inventors, and so on. Known as the "Miracle Messenger" and "King of Forgings" by his devotees, Gond's greatest achievement was the invention of gunpowder, which has spread throughout the continent today.
The church of Gond is a huge forge of forges, most of the priests of Gond are excellent blacksmiths or architects, they follow the teachings of the god of craftsmanship and blacksmithing, they are keen to pursue the art of blacksmithing, the aesthetics of architecture, they are also good inventors, they like to tinker with all kinds of strange machinery, therefore, there are often many strange inventions in the church of Gond.
It's just that although the believers of the miracle messenger like to invent, they have not formed a systematic system, they are more like a group of ancient skilled craftsmen, with superb forging and craftsmanship to create all kinds of magical machinery, rather than like scientists and engineers according to the final scientific laws to make all kinds of products of the big industry.
Most of the products of the cultists of the god of craft and forging are not universal, and although they are good inventors, they are not very good at using their inventions - this seems to be a common problem among the vast majority of inventors, who are keen to invent but are always unable to find a suitable use for their inventions.
Moreover, the passion of the god of craft and forging for creation and invention has always been dissatisfied and resisted by his lord god, Ogmar, the Lord of Knowledge.
Although the king of knowledge, Ogmar, is regarded as the source of all knowledge and inspiration, but he is actually a conservative who rejects progress, compared to invention and creation, promoting technological progress, and knowledge dissemination, Ogma is more inclined to guard the current order and knowledge, he is cautious about the dissemination of knowledge and craftsmanship, and what he does is at most to collect and collect knowledge, rather than inventing and creating knowledge.
Legend has it that Ugmar ventured to the land from faraway lands shortly after Suren and Sha'er created the world of Zariel (and the birth of the earth goddess Sarya). When the traveler came into the world, He saw that the whole world was in chaos, and that many of the ever-changing concepts were in desperate need of settlement.
So the traveler defined and named each concept over the next billion years. The name given by the traveler generates power, fixing all the previously unpredictable concepts of transformation into a materialized natural world. This traveler brought order to the chaotic world, and in doing so, was glorified among the ancient gods of Zariel, becoming the binder and guardian of all knowledge.
It's just that the former namer, who seems to be too preoccupied with the order he used to say about creation, has mastered the ideas of the entire world of Zariel, monitoring all knowledge and inspiration to determine whether a knowledge and inspiration will be passed on to future generations (or die with the inventor).
But he refuses to change and progress, and in many cases the bookbinder of knowledge plays more of a definite cautionary role, because he has accumulated countless experiences over the endless years, so he prefers the dogma of conservative ideas, hoping that no new ideas will disturb the delicate balance he has shaped since the creation of the world.
As a result, Ogma had little to do with many of the more positive deities (such as Loshanda, the Lord of the Dawn, and Lyra, the goddess of joy), who often objected to Ogma's insistence on the status quo and believed that bookbinders were always trying to manipulate other people's ideas through clever old rhetoric.
Ogma, on the other hand, is a stubborn believer that knowledge must be used sparingly, and that the world is balanced and perfect enough that there is no need for radical changes to upset this balance. While he admired Gonde's enthusiasm and creativity, he was also dissatisfied with the miracle messenger's boundless ambition to promote craftsmanship, believing that he put innovation ahead of introspection and ignored the disruption of the world order by change.
Because of the suppression of this main god intentionally or unintentionally, the church of Gongde has existed on the mainland for so long and has given birth to countless inventions, but it has never invented anything important that has caused the process of civilization on the mainland.
In fact, if a time-traveler comes to this world, thinking that he can use the vast knowledge of the other world to promote the progress of civilization in this world, and thus gain the favor of the Lord of Knowledge. What awaits him is probably not flowers, wine and applause, but more likely to be quietly destroyed along with his inventions.
Although the Lord of Knowledge holds the priesthood of knowledge, which is extremely important to civilization, he is a guy who rejects the progress of civilization, and he even maintains a cautious attitude towards the spread of knowledge, and his position is simply that of a gate lord who refuses universal education in order to maintain his privileged position.
If you want to say that Dugu Feng despises the most in this world, it must be the gods of this conservative intellectual god system.
In Dugufeng's view, craftsmanship and forging, as well as knowledge itself, are all highly potential priesthoods. Craft and forging can further develop into industry, production, science and technology, and knowledge itself can also extend to education, information, wisdom, philosophy, science, and other very vast fields.
The priesthood occupied by the gods of knowledge is almost all crucial in the progress of civilization, the progress of society, and the development of science and technology. It can even be said that with the progress of civilization, the gods of knowledge will only become stronger and stronger, not weaker.
This is really a bit difficult for Dugu Feng to understand, why the gods of knowledge would refuse the spread of knowledge and stand on a conservative and stubborn position.
Even when Dugu Feng came to this world, he once took the priesthood of the gods of knowledge such as craftsmanship and forging and knowledge as one of the alternative targets, and these priesthoods were the easiest to develop for Dugu Feng and the most difficult to advance.
Of course, because Dugu Feng was the first to encounter the killing divinity, he finally chose killing as his future direction. Therefore, she is more than happy to cooperate with the Church of Gunde, the god of forging, who is closer to her philosophy. Instead of the church of Tyr, the god of justice, and Losanda, the lord of the dawn, who had always been kind to her.